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Request to disclose evidence of the "comfort women" description,
in Curriculum Frameworks, History-Social Science.
May 8, 2016
To:
California Department of Education, @CADeptEd(Twitter), http://www.cde.ca.gov/
Ms. Nancy McTygue, Executive Director, California History-Social Science Project
Mr. Bill Honig, President at Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE)
photo: JayZee, 2012 (wikimapia)
The frameworks described "comfort women" issue as follows;
- “Comfort Women,” a euphemism for sexual slaves, were taken by the Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during the war. “Comfort Women” can be taught as an example of institutionalized sexual slavery, and one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the twentieth century; estimates on the total number of comfort women vary, but most argue that hundreds of thousands of women were forced into these situations during Japanese occupation. -
Request for Disclosure:
related to the above description, could you please disclose the below ?
(1). Evidence that endorses the description.
(2). How you verified that evidence.
(3). What cross-examination against that evidence there was.
(4). Some samples of concrete incidents as "charged-fact" that showed criminality by the national policy of Japan.
(5). You acknowledged it or not, that there are no record/coverage about killed/disappeared victims' names.
This request is based on the LosAngelesTimes coverage (February 7, 2016);
- The passages were incorporated into the draft framework at the urging of Korean community groups, authors of the guideline said. (Nancy) McTygue and Bill Honig, co-chairs of the History-Social Science subject matter committee, said they consulted the latest historical research and survivors' testimony and concluded there was enough evidence for it to be taught in schools. -
Japanese government has denied your description
- The Government of Japan(GOJ) has conducted a full-scale fact-finding study on the comfort women issue since the early 1990s when the issue started to be taken up as a political issue between Japan and the ROK. The fact-finding study included 1) research and investigation on related documents owned by relevant ministries and agencies of the GOJ, 2) document searches at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, as well as 3) hearings of relevant individuals including former military parties and managers of comfort stations and analysis of testimonies collected by the Korean Council. “Forceful taking away” of comfort women by the military and government authorities could not be confirmed in any of the documents that the GOJ was able to identify in the above-mentioned study. -
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CEDAW%2fC%2fJPN%2fQ%2f7-8%2fAdd.1&Lang=en
- It was not true that the Japanese Government denied history. The Japanese Government was painfully aware of its responsibilities and offered its sincere apologies and remorse. The involvement of the military with regard to the establishment of comfort stations had been acknowledged in the past. However, the figure of 200,000 persons as the number of comfort women lacked concrete evidence. The expression “sex-slaves” also contradicted the facts, and it was regrettable that a Committee Member had raised points contradicting the facts. -
http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/%28httpNewsByYear_en%29/235508FBD8487A78C1257F5B005A1944?OpenDocument
Believing in "fact-based" education
For History-Social Science, it is an absolute principle that fact-finding should come first, especially about the matter in controversy such as "comfort women" issue. But, with all due respect, it seemed that you neglected fact-finding by yourself, you swallowed one-sided material with no verification, and you neglected investigating counter-viewpoints.
I hope you'll find the non-appropriateness of your description in the frameworks and you'll retrieve the "fact-based" education in California.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely
( 2016, Racn Kel )
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